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The Road Home

The Road Home is a beautifully written about immigration and building a better life. I liked it.

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Everywhere You Don't Belong

Everywhere You Don’t Belong was a moving, fast-paced, poignant coming-of-age story about a young Black man from Chicago.

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Ordinary Hazards

Ordinary Hazards was a beautiful, heartbreaking novel about community and tragedy and hope and love and found family.

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Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell Trilogy, #2)

Bring Up the Bodies is a truly great sequel to Wolf Hall. It takes the best of that book and builds dizzyingly on the world Hilary Mantel built.

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What Happens at Night

What Happens at Night is a dream-like and weird but very atmospheric and moving novel. I really liked it, but it won’t be for everyone.

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The Death of Vivek Oji

This is a raw, gutting, absolutely beautiful book about a young Nigerian person navigating gender dysphoria. It’s incredible.

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Luster

Luster is a searing, unflinching novel about art and sex and racism and womanhood that looks its characters right in the face. It was so good.

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An Orchestra of Minorities

An Orchestra of Minorities is a stunningly beautiful, terribly sad novel written from the most unique narration I’ve ever read.

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Half of a Yellow Sun

Half of a Yellow Sun is a heartbreaking novel about the Biafran war, which took place in Nigeria in the 1960s. It’s not an easy read, but it is affecting and an incredible feat of writing.

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Gilead (Gilead, #1)

Gilead is an epistolary novel about a minister nearing the end of his life. I found it a tad slow in the middle, but very beautifully written,.

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On Beauty

On Beauty is a literary family drama that feels simultaneously like comfort food and watching a train wreck in slow motion.

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The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, #3)

The Stone Sky is an incredible conclusion to The Broken Earth trilogy. I truly couldn’t put it down, and it solidified this trilogy as an all-time favorite.

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Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell Trilogy, #1)

Wolf Hall is a pretty dense historical fiction about Thomas Cromwell and King Henry VIII. But it’s an incredible accomplishment of a book, and I’m really glad I read it.

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We Need to Talk About Kevin

We Need to Talk About Kevin is a deeply unsettling but ultimately brilliant book about the mother of a psychopathic kid who commits a school shooting.

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Lake Life

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Sabrina & Corina: Stories

Sabrina & Corina is a collection of really, really good short stories about Latinas of indigenous ancestry. There wasn’t a single one I didn’t enjoy, and many I truly loved.